The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1959 Page: 4 of 10
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THB THRESHIE
FRIDAY* MAT 1, INI
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Painless Learning
The Tuesday night College series has ended. Next
fall they will begin again, with, we hope, an even larger
average, attendance than this past year.
Dr. Konstantin Kolenda, who organized the series,
and all the professors who gave their time for lectures
deserve a vote of thanks for giving students a painless
dose of learning outside their fields of study, and for
adding a pleasant note to our "academic atmosphere."
Tch, Tch!
We are definitely behind the times. The University
of Houston now has an official student vigilante com-
mittee to purge that campus of all subversive reading
matter—in the form of textbooks. Aire Rice students
just going to sit back and be complacent and liberal?
Student Senate
Charity Drive, Homecoming
Discussed, By-Law Passed
By^BARRY MOORE
and LESLIE ARNOLD
THE STUDENT Council met
for the last time Wednesday
night. A communication was re-
ceived from Mr. Sims expressing
appreciation from the administra-
tion for the manner in which the
Council fulfilled its office this
year.
THE COUNCIL was commend-
ed for bringing to the adminis-
tration's attention differences of
opinion on Hamman Hall and the
Student Center( both of which
were entirely new, and for its
work on the new Constitution.
NEWS WAS received from the
Campanile staff th^ the Sally-,
port section will be forty pages
longer this year and the book will
contain five color pictures more
than last year.
TURNING TO news- of a fi-
nancial nature, it was disclosed
that the Charity Drive netted
$1940. $2,964.50 was spent on
Homecoming and a profit of
$541.50 was made. The Student
Association account now has a
balance of $5,011.41 less, about
$40 and the Student Properties
Fund contains $1,012.41 of which
$300 will be spent for a public
address system for football games
next year.
THE STUDENT Center Com-
mittee reported that there are
now ping pong and pool tables in
the basement of the building. The
committee is still working on
cold drink machines and a tele-
vision set.
THE COUNCIL passed a mam-
oth by-law, Article C-l, Estab-
lishment and Operation of Stu-
dent Organizations. It lists in
detail how organizations may be
formed, what their constitutions
must contain, how they may be
dissolved, and what the privileges
of an organization are. Of . par-
ticular interest is the clause
stating that no unapproved group
may be covered in the Campanile.
Section 3, b states that the funds
of any group not dispersed be-
fore its dissolution and not claim-
ed by its members after dissolu-
tion shall become property of the
Student Association.
UT Students Protest Against
'Victorianism,' 'Oppression'
Stories of students seeking
more genuine power over their
own activities appeared in sev-
eral college papers last month.
Victor ianism
Student leaders at University
of Texas, for example, complained
to administrators about what they
called "Victorianism" and "op-
pressive" policies.
DAILY TEXAN quoted the
university's vice-president an(J
provost, Dr. Harry H. Ransom, as
raying, "This may well be a com-
pletely new generation of stu-
dents . . . students willing to as-
sume great responsibility; if this
is so, then perhaps we should re-
evaluate our administrative po-
sition and give students more re-
sponsibility."
More Power
He urged a study be made to
determine how students could
have perhaps more policy power
in the University community.
University President Logan
Wilson agreed the study deserves
consideration, adding, "The deans
might well be delighted to see
students assume more responsi-
bility."
Fiats Against Kissing
Accoring to the Tvilaxi, stu-
dents said that evei^hing from
fiats against kissing in front of
dorms to unrealistic policies
against staying out late for aca-
demic functions are inhibiting. A
coed leader asked if students
could have more "direct author-
ity" as some students do, men-
tioning a school where women
decide their own hours.
Dr. Wilson stressed the need
for students to be "left alone"
as well as "helped."
"I'm sure you wouldn't want
the deans' offices dictating all
elements of student life, would
you? Theirs.is a ticklish job."
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GINGER PURINGTON
Editor
ED SUMMERS
Managing Editor
ROBERT HINTON
JOEL HOCHMAN
Assistant Boa. Mgr.
vr/am nun
Alum Says Thanks
For Rice Day Fun
THE ONCE-WAS-A and the
Now-is-a students met as kindred
spirits on Rice Day, April 21, the
annual Aiumni spring festivity.
You students who were invited to
take part in our fun were ter-
rific! And so were the Alumni!
There were more than 600 people
in the Entrance Hall of the Rice
Memorial Building. Nothing like
it has ever happened before!
THE GRAPEVINE publicity
had said that students were en-
tertaining the alumni. Our there
for the occasion was "AT HOME-
AT LAST," because a dream has
been realized—a real and beau-
tiful home for student and alum-
ni activities, together and _ sep-
arately, with space enough for
big crowds, yet not too over-
whelmingly for the small groups.
A HOME with beautiful sur-
roundings, dignity yet informal-
ity, equipped with an excellent
PA system; a splendid lighting
set-up; a magnificent setting for
a stage against the colorful cur-
tain used as a backdrop; 2 doors
conveniently opening from the
courtyard walkways, which serv-
ed as backstage entries for the
cast. A wonderful set-up and
used to the fullest degree for the
first time at our Rice D&y "AT
HOME—AT LAST."
The alumni came to see YOU
perform in OUR building be-
cause we both share it. It was
designed and planned for both
of us—YOU (students) and US
(alumni). (English majors, please
note! "Us" is correct!)
I AM SPEAKING for the en-
• tire Rice Day committee and say-
ing thanks first to Frank Dent,
who was co-ordinator or Bally-
hooer, as we called him. He did
■a marvelous job of getting the
show together and announcing
it. Endless hours of preparation
went into his part.
MANY THANKS to Marilyn
Kinzer. She was Belle Ringer for
the co-eds who gave us style,
beauty, glamour and many
laughs, too.
^ Specials - thanks to Beverly
Montgomery, Tom Evans and
Buddy Dial, who sang for us and
to Tommie Lu Storm, who danc-
ed. You were all terrific!
Thanks to the Blaze Blinker in
charge of lighting — Tom Mc-
Keown. He blinked good!
Thanks to our Beat-Master,
Bob Seiler and the Beat-Miss,
Mary Lacey for their piano ac-
companiment.
THANKS TO our 3 Rice pro-
fessors, who were colossal sports
in the final "number. We will not
name them because we hope you
will wonder until you find out
for yourselves!
LAST, but probably this should
be first, thanks to Mr. John Ken-
nedy, manager of the Rice Me-
morial Center—your center and
ours, too—for his COMPLETE
and wholehearted co-operation at
every turn. ♦
SO AGAIN, you were terrific.
The entire committee for Rice
Day says Thanks. This includes
Curtis Johnson '43, President pf
the Association of Rice Alumni.
Mrs. Harvin Moore, 1st Vice-
President and over-all Director
of Activities, Jimmy Rogers,
Treasurer, and Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Davis, co-chairmen for Rice
Day, and their splendid commit-
tee of several dozen alumni. We
speak also* for Whitlock Zander
and John Evans, the Executive
Secretary and his Assistant.
MRS. FRED J. STANCLIFF
2nd Vice-President of Alumni
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WHY WON'T YOU USE
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(Peanuts is a regular feature of the Houston Press)
LAST PROSE OF SUMMERS
Prof - Ra ting Turns
Into Prof - Baiting
By ED SUMMERS'
This week, Rice Institute was
to have observed one of the last
of its pre-college system tradi-
tions—the passing-out of profes-
sor rating-sheets. Actually, this
is two traditions—one which re-
quires the students to fill them
out in a way calculated to put
the party in the adjoining seat
into convulsions of laughter, and
a second which requires that the
professor read the first two he
picks up and then, with a skill
that .comes from years of prac-
tice, pitch the remaining sheets
twelve feet across the room into
the wastebasket, which is set
over by the door of his study be-
cause it would be filled several
times over before it were emp-
tied, if it were by his desk.
Lost In the Past
The purpose of these sheets is
lost in the misty byways of the
past. It is remotely possible that
at some earlier date Rice had
students who took seriously the
job of rating the faculty, per-
haps visualizing their professor
earnestly striving to improve
himself according to the wishes
of his students. It is more likely
that at said earlier date the
chairs were so far apart that you
cotildn't see what your neigh-
bor was writing, thus removing
the chief motive for humorous re-
marks
Happy Exception
There are happy exceptions to
this gloomy picture of buoyant
disregard. We recall with delight
a conscientious lad who spent half
a class period patiently filling out
a rating sheet—in a hand whose
capital letters were about one-
sixteenth of an inch tall, with a
number two Rapidograph, for a
Professor who had a notorious
difficulty deciphering newspaper
headlines held a foot from his
face. *<
Student Criticism
We recall, too, a professor an-
nouncing to his class that while
he was sympathetic to student
criticism, he thought it was real-
ly going too far for a certain
young lady to request that he
purchase a toupee in order to
prevent the sun from glancing
off his glowing cranium into her
sensitive eyes.
Hilarious Lecture
And a wonderful gentleman
whom we had for ivfath 100 who
was as good a showman as he
was a professor spent one hilar-
ious lecture endeavoring to his
utmost to achieve the level of
conduct we had set for him in
those rating sheets. Only let him
mumble, and he caught and cas-
tigater himself severely. If he
started to tell a joke, he quickly
stopper and with a show of pro-
fessorly dignity which reduced his
class to breathless heehaws of
laughter, resumed his lecture.
White Faced And Nervous
And we have heard of a cer-
tain highly unpopular fellow who
handed out the sheets as a matter
of bourse, took them up, and ap-
parently read them, for he ap-
peared at his lecture the follow-
ing period white-faced, nervous,
and with two mountainous grad-
uate students hovering protec-
tively nearby.
Fan Mail
Some professors do not get
rating sheets; they get fan mail.
How would you rate a prof who,
on the first day pf class in hal-
lowed old Lovett Hall, entered
the room and sat down behind the
desk and, glaring about mildly,
announced that "It might interest
the more tradition-minded among
you to know that I now sit in the
same chair once occupied by the
cold, correct bottom of Edgar
Odell Lovett!"
They Won't Change
And other professors won't
change no matter what you do;
they are oblivious to criticism-—
at least, on the surface. One prof
who lived in a student dormitory"
was observed to open his door
early one morning and shoo out ft
cat. As the cat meandered down
the hall, the prof, standing in his
alltogethers in a hall he believed
to be empty, pointed his finger
at the cat and uttered these
words: "Cat, if you are a female
of your species, and if you were
aware of the opinion held by my
students of my moral behaviour
you would not consider yourself
so free to enter my living-quar-
ters!"
Oh, well. It takes all kinds to
make a university—or an Insti-
tute.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1959, newspaper, May 1, 1959; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231120/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.